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Re: [Json] ABNF nits

"Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <jhildebr@cisco.com> Fri, 07 June 2013 16:57 UTC

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From: "Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <jhildebr@cisco.com>
To: "stefan@drees.name" <stefan@drees.name>, "Matt Miller (mamille2)" <mamille2@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [Json] ABNF nits
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On 6/7/13 8:28 AM, "Stefan Drees" <stefan@drees.name> wrote:
>Did it catch everything?

indentation, which is less of a nit in ABNF than other syntaxes.

>Or do we want to explain, that 4HEXDIG means
>exactly 4 hex digits? I guess no, as the comment is depicting this nice
>and it is common ABNF practice to deal with multiplicity.

See section 3.7 of 5234.  4HEXDIG means exactly 4 HEXDIG.

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Joe Hildebrand

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